JAMB BANS SIX CBT OFFICIALS OVER EXAM IRREGULARITIES

JAMB Bans Six CBT Officials Over Exam Irregularities

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board has Banned six CBT officials over exam irregularities in the ongoing Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination registration.

On Monday, JAMB Registrar Ishaq Oloyede announced this while speaking to journalists after visiting CBT centres in Ilorin, Kwara state capital.

Oloyede revealed that six CBT personnel engaged by JAMB have been given a lifetime ban from participating in JAMB-organized examinations.

“The people were caught in alleged examination malpractice, adding that we have their particulars and we will be monitoring them wherever they go even if they become professors and are to be appointed as Vice Chancellors.

“One senior university official is being prosecuted for admission-related crime, adding that four others are under investigation and have been placed on the watch list by JAMB.”

The JAMB registrar revealed that 10 institutions were caught engaging in nighttime registrations, resulting in warnings and a stern reminder that CBT centers must not retain candidate templates.

The Registrar disclosed that the Examination body has registered a total number of 420,674 candidates for the 2025/2026 JAMB examinations so far as of Monday afternoon.

Oloyede also said no fewer than 32,435 candidates registered for the examinations on Monday alone which was the 5th day that the UTME registration began.

He said 124,632 candidates have entered for the mock JAMB exams while 331 candidates registered for trial testing adding that “this category of candidates are not applying for admission in any Nigerian Universities in the 2025/2026 session.

Oloyede said that JAMB has a target of two million candidates for this year’s UTME Examination.

The JAMB registrar, who put the number of underaged registrants (candidates who would be less than 16 years old by October) at 4,997 as of Monday afternoon, lambasted those he described as selfish parents who crave to make their children’s educational pursuit as their victory medal.

“You can see how we’re deceiving ourselves in this country.

Before the maximum figure would be about 300. In a situation when we’ve just started in five days and we have a total number of 4996 underaged registrants. By the end of today, there will be more than 5000.

“Many of these parents have misdirected their children. They want to use their children’s early education to decorate their
CVs”, he said.

Answering questions on reasons for allowing underaged candidates in the exams, the jamb registrar said that all underaged candidates are made to sign an indemnity form or undertaking to meet up with academic ability or be sanctioned for such failure to meet up with claimed exceptional intelligence.

Some of the CBT centres visited were Kwara State College of Education, Al-Hikmah University, Socrates College, Matrix CBT centre at Pipeline Road, Tanke, Ilorin and the University of Ilorin CBT centre.

Oloyede after his visits to CBT centres to monitor the registration for the 2025/2026 JAMB registration said that the exercise was going excellently well in all centres.

I am delighted with the progress I’ve seen at the CBT centers and the hard work of our staff and security personnel, who have maintained the highest standards.

The outcome is satisfactory, and I acknowledge the efforts of all parties in meeting our expectations. Special thanks to the security agencies for their commendable assistance.